Breaking It All Down: Reading Stats 2014
Total # of books: 139
Pages read: 40,276
Library books: 31 Thanks, BEL! xoxo
Kindle books: 81
Audio books: 2
Tree books: 56
Fiction: 61
Nonfiction: 78
Graphic Novels: 15
DNF: 8
Should I stay or should I go?:
Van Gogh - Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (page 258)
Always come back to you: (author I read the most in 2014)
Maya Angelou - 7 books
I read the book, I saw the TV show, got the t-shirt:
Orange is the New Black
Shortest book:
The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr (27 pages)
Longest book:
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True (1,056 pages)
Newest book:
What's Living in My Knickers? (December, 2014)
Oldest book:
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
You go back, Jack, do it again (rereads): 9
Doorstop Dreams (500+ pages): 12
Small Packages (-100 pages): 8
Translated books: 3
Funniest book:
Hark! A Vagrant! and Dear Coca-Cola
Saddest book:
My Brother Sam is Dead
Blood pressure spike:
The Devil's Knot
WTF?!:
Touching The Void
What's Living in My Knickers?
Frustrated, Incorporated:
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
American Rose - Karen Abbott
Highway with Green Apples - Suah Bae
Bark - Lorrie Moore
Landline - Rainbow Rowell
Labor Day - Joyce Maynard
You Are What You Wear - Jennifer Baumgartner
Favorites - Fiction:
My Name is Mary Sutter - Robin Oliveira
Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver
Rifles for Watie - Harold Keith
A Mummer's Wife - George Moore
The Nether World - George Gissing
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Street - Ann Petry
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
The Homesman - Glendon Swarthout
Stoner - John Williams
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
Lila - Marilynne Robinson
Euphoria - Lily King
Favorites - Nonfiction:
The Devil's Knot - Mara Leveritt
Food of a Younger Land - Mark Kurlansky
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
The Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey
Maya Angelou memoirs
Lessons From Madame Chic - Jennifer L. Scott
Five Came Back - Mark Harris
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
The Lost Art of Dress - Linda Przbyszewski
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
Beverly Cleary memoirs
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? - Roz Chast
When it was 2014, it was a very WOW year:
Euphoria (fiction)
Lila (fiction)
The Lost Art of Dress (nonfiction)
Bad Feminist (essays)
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (graphic novel)
I remember doing the Time Warp:
Books written before 1800: 1
Books written 1800-1899: 8
Books written 1900-1960: 12
Books written 1961-1999: 29
Books written 2000-2014: 89
On the road again (Author Birthplace):
Australia: 1
Austria: 1
Canada: 3
Dominican Republic: 1
England: 19
Ethiopia: 1
France: 2
Ireland: 4
Japan: 2
Scotland: 1
South Korea: 2
USA: 102
Books with male authors: 48
Books with female authors: 73
Books with co-authors: 4
Books with...not sure of gender: 1
Time to make some book resolutions!
6 comments:
Nice reading year, obviously. I'm particularly impressed with how many older books you read in 2014...and how many were Kindle books.
I've looked at about 10 year-end recaps in the last couple of days and I'm finding that in 100% of them the author gender most read coincides with that of the blogger. Still looking for the exception to the rule...
What a good year you had! I love the way you broke everything down! I am in the midst of Bad Feminist right now and liking it very much. Happy New Year!
Amazing blog and very interesting stuff you got here! I definitely learned a lot from reading through some of your earlier posts as well and decided to drop a comment on this one!
I read and watched Orange is the New Black this year too. I actually ended up loving the TV show more!
Great post! After reading through your latest posts, I have added The Homesman and Insomnia to my TBR list! Thanks and Happy New Year!
Happy 2015, Susan. You had a great reading year in 2014. 139 books! I still haven't cracked 100. My perennial goal until I do....It was interesting to see how many old classics you enjoyed, as well as books published in 2014 :-)
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